My words is an online vocabulary building program. I think it is wise website because it enables you to create and maintain individual vocabulary portfolios by constructing personalized glossaries and it assesses your learning progress. My words provides full lexical information e.g. definitions,synonyms and antonyms, spoken pronunciation, frequency, sample sentence. It also contians games and the comprehensive resourses on this website that assists you to maintian and enhance glossaries.You can also identify your vocabuary level through a number of assessment such as "the academic word list test".I think My word is better than web dictionary becuase it assits personal learning and provides assessment for learners. Learners are able to valuate their own words learning.
My words Toolbar helps learners to copy and learn vocabulary form the web.It features of capturing new words/phrases from any web page to your own personal word list.It navigates to the my words web site with one click, gets definitions and translations, says words/phrases on any web page. It also eady accesses to different resources, highlights words /phrases on any web page,generates a word list from any web page. I think my words toolbar is useful for vocabulary learning. The most impressive is easy to access to other information resources. Personally, My word is free and useful website for language learners espcially for Chinese learners.
2010年3月6日 星期六
Reading reflection-PRACTICAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR MULTIMEDIA
Hsien-Chin Liou mainly discusses practical aspects through the exploration of the development of a piece of EFL interactive videodisc courseware. He makes good interpretation of the project objective setting, instruction design, and on-line implementation. In his paper, we can know that IVD can provide learners an authentic and adaptive learning environment. Personally, I have positive attitude toward using authentic materials to teach language. Students benefit from the explosure to real situations. IDV project will help teacher to teach more effective. "It consists of four units: an Introduction, Hyperscript, Film Viewing, and Film Viewing with Instruction.Hyperscript is a design using a hypertext format, while Film Viewing
is designed with various kinds of on-line help. Film Viewing with Instruction is a
module with a great deal of program control." This project is impressed me. Can you inmagin how pleased enviroment when you are learning literature through visual and audio relaxing. It might attract students to learn language. In additon, IVD proect also provide useful tool called DICTIONA.DBF that contains English and
Chinese pairs of all the words or idioms used in the film or play script so when students encounter unknown words or idioms, they can look them up on-line. This design helps students for individual learning with their own pace without interfering with others. Learners can use it at home or school as flexibly as they can. In adition, what I am appreciated is the coursework can provide both preview and review activities in language class, which help English teaching for class teaching and evalating. Generally speaking, IVD is a excellent courseware that can be applied into language teaching and learning. It provides enthentic environment for learners, which highly motivates students' learning.
is designed with various kinds of on-line help. Film Viewing with Instruction is a
module with a great deal of program control." This project is impressed me. Can you inmagin how pleased enviroment when you are learning literature through visual and audio relaxing. It might attract students to learn language. In additon, IVD proect also provide useful tool called DICTIONA.DBF that contains English and
Chinese pairs of all the words or idioms used in the film or play script so when students encounter unknown words or idioms, they can look them up on-line. This design helps students for individual learning with their own pace without interfering with others. Learners can use it at home or school as flexibly as they can. In adition, what I am appreciated is the coursework can provide both preview and review activities in language class, which help English teaching for class teaching and evalating. Generally speaking, IVD is a excellent courseware that can be applied into language teaching and learning. It provides enthentic environment for learners, which highly motivates students' learning.
2010年3月4日 星期四
Reading reflection - Theory driven CALL and the development process
This paper mainly discusses that theoretical frameworks have been used to motivate CALL projects. It is true that thteory might be a guideline for CALL projects. But in some cases, CALL projects have not been driven directly by theory. When it comes to practical environment, problems might appear. In this paper, I strongly agree with Wyatt idea that" one of the most fundamental issues in the field of CALL is the fit between the computer's capabilities ans demands of language pedagogy". Theory can be useful for fitting the techonolgy and teaching demands. People believe that CALL should be theory- driven, the formalists which might not encompass the context of CALL. In fact, as the papet mentioned, proceeding with the theory through the development process, writing a program and evaluating it is a sure way to test strength and liminations of the theory in this repect.
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